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James M. Barker papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Barker
Abstract Correspondence, business records, speeches, personal materials, photographs, and family newsletters of business executive James M. Barker. During his career, Barker was, among other things, banker, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and president of Allstate Insurance Company whose financial expertise made him a valued advisor in government financial matters and corporate environments. He participated in post World War II era economic missions to Iran and Turkey, and was a close...
Dates: 1825-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1970

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Paul Romaine papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Romaine
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Milwaukee and Chicago bookseller and bon vivant Paul Romaine. Also photographs, memorabilia, diaries, clippings, writings (of Romaine and others), plus items relating to theater, music, political events and persons who interested Romaine.

Dates: 1880-1986; Majority of material found within 1937-1983

Steele-Winters Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract

Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.

Dates: 1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970

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  • Subject: Diaries X
  • Subject: Photographs -- 1951-2000 X

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- 1901-1950 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
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Adopted children -- Wisconsin 1
Adultery -- United States 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History 1
Businessmen -- United States 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Christian County (Ill.) -- History 1
Cold War -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
College students -- Illinois -- History 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History 1
Diaries 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1951-2000 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Dover (Ill.) -- History 1
Education -- Illinois -- History 1
Education, Higher -- United States 1
Engineers -- United States 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Fascists -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
Financial executives 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Greeting cards 1
Husband and wife -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Illiopolis (Ill.) -- History 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Iran -- Foreign economic relations -- United States 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Mason City (Iowa) -- History 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Newsletters 1
Older people -- Care -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
Pana (Ill.) -- History 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Postcards 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History 1
Prohibited books -- United States 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
Rosamond (Ill.) -- History 1
Rural families -- Illinois -- History 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Sangamon County (Ill.) -- History 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
School yearbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Shirland (Ill.) -- History 1
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 1
Society of Friends 1
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Bureau County -- History 1
Speeches 1
Teachers -- Indiana -- History 1
Tiskilwa (Ill.) -- History 1
Travel literature -- Europe 1
Travelers -- Europe -- Diaries 1
Valentines 1
Winnebago County (Ill.) -- History 1
Women -- Education -- History 1
Women college students -- Illinois 1
Women teachers 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company 1
Allstate Insurance Company 1
American School of Prehistoric Research 1
Baker family 1
Barker family 1
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Barker, James M. (James Madison), 1886-1974 1
Bleamer family 1
Brush, Albert 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Carlisle, Harry 1
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
College of Complexes (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987 1
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 1
De Granamour, A., 1915-1987 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Downs family 1
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 1
Ebtehaj, A. H. (Abol Hassan), 1899- 1
Edgewater Beach Tennis Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
First National Bank of Boston. Buenos Aires Branch 1
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Garner, Robert L. (Robert Livingston), 1894- 1
Gibson, Paul, 1907- 1
Green, Joshua, 1869-1975 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hencken, Hugh, 1902-1981 1
Howe, C. D. (Clarence Decatur), 1886-1960 1
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 1
Ilma, Viola 1
Indiana University 1
Killian, James Rhyne, 1904-1988 1
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lott, George 1
MacMurray College 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Nash, Jay Robert 1
New Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Newcomen Society of the United States 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Overseas Consultants, Inc. 1
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 1
Revere, C T. (Clinton T.), 1874- 1
Romaine, Paul, -1986 1
Roman family 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Steele family 1
Steele, Georgia Baker 1
Swain, George Fillmore, 1857-1931 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955) 1
Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978 1
Winters family 1
Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999 1
Winters, Robert Ulney, Jr., 1908-1978 1
World Bank 1
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